Notable Birthdays - 1746
1746 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 11 |
Frantisek Adam Mica, composer |
Jan 11 |
William Curtis, English botanist/publisher (Botanical Magazine) |
Jan 12 |
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Switzerland, educator [OS] |
Jan 21 |
Johann H Pestalozzi, Zurich Switz, educator (Leonard & Gertrude) [NS] |
Jan 24 |
Gustav III, king during Swedish Enlightenment (1771-92) |
Feb 4 |
Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish, Lithuanian and American National hero and general (d. 1817) |
Feb 16 |
Johann Heinse, German Sturm und Drang novelist/art critic |
Feb 26 |
Archduchess Marie Amalie of Austria, duchess of Piacenza (d. 1806) |
Feb 27 |
Gian Francesco Fortunati, composer |
Mar 5 |
Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/naval chaplain |
Mar 8 |
André Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802) |
Mar 13 |
Maurus Haberhauer, composer |
Mar 17 |
Jan David Holland, composer |
Mar 27 |
Augustin Ullinger, composer |
Mar 27 |
Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney/father of emperor Napoleon |
Mar 27 |
Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (d. 1767) |
Mar 30 |
Francisco Jose de Goya, Fuendetodos Spain, painter/etcher (Naked Maja) |
Apr 23 |
Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist (d. 1794) |
May 10 |
Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (d. 1818) |
May 13 |
Oliver Brownson, composer |
May 19 |
Johann Friedrich Peter, composer |
Jun 3 |
James Hook, composer |
Jun 24 |
Jean Baptiste Rochefort, composer |
Jul 2 |
Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer |
Jul 7 |
Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer |
Jul 16 |
Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian monk/discoverer (1st asteroid-Ceres) |
Jul 28 |
Thomas Heyward, soldier, signed Decl of Ind |
Aug 2 |
Joan Lucaz, Dutch journalist/patriot |
Aug 7 |
Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classical/historian |
Aug 8 |
Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet (church songs) |
Sep 4 |
Bernardus Bosch, Dutch Patriot/poet/writer, baptised |
Sep 20 |
Móric Beňovský, Slovak officer and explorer, King of Madagascar (d. 1786) |
Sep 28 |
Sir William Jones, London England, British Orientalist/jurist (d. 1794) |
Sep 29 |
Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer |
Oct 7 |
William Billings, Boston Mass, hymn composer (Rose of Sharon) |
Oct 12 |
José Joaquim Emérico Lobo de Mesquita, Symphonia Colonialis |
Oct 27 |
Georg Anton Kreusser, composer |
Nov 6 |
African-American abolitionist and clergyman Absalom Jones born into slavery in Delaware |
Nov 12 |
Jacques-Alexandre-César Charles, Beaugency, French inventor and balloonist who, with Nicholas Robert, was the first to take flight in a hydrogen balloon |
Nov 14 |
Giulio Gabrielli the Younger, Italian Cardinal |
Nov 15 |
Joseph Quesnel, French Canadian composer and playwright (d. 1809) |
Nov 27 |
Robert R. Livingston, US Founding Father, delivered oath of office to George Washington |
Nov 27 |
Increase Sumner, 5th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1799) |
20 |
Móric Benyovszky, Benyovszky, the rebel count |
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